Georgia Caine

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Georgia Caine (around 1903)

Georgia Caine (born October 30, 1876 in San Francisco , California , † April 4, 1964 in Hollywood , California) was an American theater and film actress.

life and career

Georgia Caine was born the daughter of Shakespeare actors and traveled the United States with her parents from an early age. She then grew up with relatives, but left school at 17 to pursue a career in the theater herself. In 1899, she made her Broadway debut in the musical A Reign of Error , in which she was given the lead role. By 1935 she appeared in around 30 Broadway productions, particularly often in musicals, which made her a well-known theater actress of her time. She played several times in productions by George M. Cohan , including the musicals Little Nellie Kelly , Mary and The O'Brien Girls . She last played in 1935 in the comedy A Slight Case of Murder written by Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay on Broadway.

In 1930 Georgia Caine made her film debut in the crime drama Good Intentions, starring Edmund Lowe . In the following 20 years she played in a total of around 85 films, although she often had to be content with smaller roles. Not infrequently, the character actress played strict or conservative appearing mothers, aunts, neighbors and society ladies. In 1940 she appeared as the hard-hearted mother of Barbara Stanwyck in the comedy The Unforgettable Christmas Night, based on a script by Preston Sturges . When Sturges became a director herself, she appeared in eight of his films by 1949 and was thus part of a permanent cast of supporting actors whom he regularly employed in his films. Her appearance as a bearded circus lady in Crazy Wednesday (1947) was particularly curious . Outside the comedy genre, Caine appeared in the adventure film The Riddle of Monte Christo (1934) alongside Robert Donat and impersonated Olivia de Havilland's aunt in Lord of the Wild West (1939).

Georgia Caine was married twice, including to Alphonzo Bell Hudson from 1903 until his death in 1934. She died in Hollywood in 1964 at the age of 87.

Filmography (selection)

Georgia Caine (1913)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georgia Caine | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Axel Nissen: Accustomed to Her Face: Thirty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood . McFarland, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4766-2606-2 ( google.de [accessed December 9, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Caine, Georgia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1964
Place of death Hollywood , California